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A New Zealand exchange-traded fund exposed to the country’s emissions trading scheme has seen its value fall more than 20% due to the tumultuous collapse in the NZU price over the last six months, the fund announced.

Some 60-100% of cats taken in are strays and at least 50% are kittens born in the preceding six months. Community cat programs focused on free desexing in problem areas are badly needed. Jacquie Rand, Emeritus Professor of Companion Animal Health, The University of Queensland John Morton, Industry Fellow, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

AEMO proposes new route for VNI West transmission link to avoid wetlands and irrigated crops, but there is good and bad news for renewables developers.

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As a sustainability researcher, I know how quickly we could make big changes to reduce plastic pollution. Here’s what we – both individually and globally – should be doing more of, and what to avoid. Pascal Scherrer, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Law and Art, Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Revelation about war-torn country is ‘terrible indictment’ of UK government, says Ed Miliband

Ukraine has completed more onshore wind turbines than England since it was occupied by Russian soldiers – despite the UK’s government’s promise to relax restrictions on onshore wind farms.

Only two onshore wind turbines have been installed in England since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, generating 1 megawatt (MW) of electricity in the Staffordshire village of Keele.

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The birds flew in on cue, but there were so few of them. The reason? The catastrophic decline in our insect populations

On 7 May, I tweeted that swifts had appeared in the skies over the shed where I write on the same day in 2022, and predicted, if they kept to their schedule, they would leave overnight on 7 August. My excitement was short-lived. I’ve seen no more than three or four breeding pairs over the village of Blockley, Gloucestershire, whereas last year I estimated 16 to 20 pairs and an end of season exodus of between 50 and 60 birds.

My figures are hardly scientific, but they suggest a decline of between 75% and 85% on last year, an acceleration in an established trend that shows a loss of 60% of swift numbers since 1995.

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Analysis shows area includes 9,000 hectares where there was already active logging as pressure grows on government to end practice

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Conservationists say forest areas that include 41,000 hectares of nationally important koala habitat have been identified for potential logging on the north coast of New South Wales in the region’s 12-month logging plan.

The analysis, by the North East Forest Alliance, comes as pressure grows on the NSW government to cease logging of native forests after the Victorian government announced logging in its native forests would end in December, six years earlier than planned.

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Just Stop Oil protesters forced a stoppage in play during the Gallagher Premiership final at Twickenham. Two men invaded the pitch midway through the first half of the match between Saracens and Sale, throwing orange powder on to the field. Fans jeered the duo before cheering as stewards escorted them from the stadium. Twickenham Stadium later confirmed two men had been arrested and that the incident is now a police matter.

• Just Stop Oil protesters invade pitch and stop play at Twickenham rugby final

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Gallagher Premiership match between Saracens and Sale delayed after two men throw orange powder during match

Just Stop Oil protesters have forced a stoppage in play during the Gallagher Premiership rugby union final at Twickenham.

Two men invaded the pitch midway through the first half of the match between Saracens and Sale, throwing orange paint powder on to the field.

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Research provides a unique review of contact chemicals in packaging, utensils, plates, etc and how they contaminate food

Recycled and reused food contact plastics are “vectors for spreading chemicals of concern” because they accumulate and release hundreds of dangerous toxins like styrene, benzene, bisphenol, heavy metals, formaldehyde and phthalates, new research finds.

The study assessed hundreds of scientific publications on plastic and recycled plastic to provide a first-of-its-kind systematic review of food contact chemicals in food packaging, utensils, plates and other items and what is known about how the substances contaminate food.

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Yellow flower that only grows in York went extinct in 1991 brought back to life by Natural England experts

York groundsel was a cheerful yellow flower that slipped into global extinction in 1991, thanks to overzealous application of weedkiller in the city of its name.

But now the urban plant has been bought back to life in the first ever de-extinction in Britain, and is flowering again in York.

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Scheme that began to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee in 2012 has thrived, project audit finds

Wildflower meadows planted a decade ago to celebrate 60 years of the late queen’s reign have thrived, with 101 new fields of flowers created since the scheme was launched.

King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, worked with Plantlife and the Wildlife Trusts to launch ”coronation meadows”, identifying 60 species-rich meadows from which to take donor seeds – one meadow for each year of the queen’s reign at the time.

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Exclusive: Researchers analysed works run by nine water and sewerage companies in England and Wales

Eleven billion litres of raw sewage were discharged from a sample of 30 water company treatment works in one year, new research suggests.

The study aimed to reveal the volume of discharged effluent released from storm overflows by water firms. Companies are not forced to reveal the volume of raw sewage released during discharges. They are only required by regulators to provide data on the number of discharges and the length of time they lasted.

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Financial players closed out short positions in RGGI Allowances (RGAs) while compliance entities continued to bolster net holdings across North American carbon markets, as WCI prices inched higher following last week’s auction of California Carbon Allowances (CCAs), data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

New research led by Australia's Southern Cross University reveals that while coastal ecosystems worldwide play a pivotal role in absorbing CO2, they also emit methane and nitrous oxide, offsetting their overall greenhouse gas sequestering effects.

EU member states barely handed out any free 2023 carbon allowances to heavy industry this month, according to data released late Friday.

It gives a whole new meaning to ‘going with the flow’

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A summary of legislative, regulatory, and policy action on carbon, clean fuel standard, and clean energy markets at the US federal and subnational levels this week, including Minnesota budget language to study a clean transportation fuel standard.

Two more companies have agreed to drop their climate neutrality claims on certain products they sell this week, opting to settle rather than face rulings by German courts in cases brought by an NGO alleging that the carbon credits backing the claims lack sufficient credibility.